Button Mushrooms Many Ways

Wild varieties of mushrooms, along with brown creminis and their larger cousins, portobellos, get all the glory these days, but they shouldn’t. Widely available white button mushrooms are an excellent ingredient, and they perform well in recipes calling for more exotic varieties.

A great way to add flavor to lots of foods is a classic duxelles, says escondido123. “Stash [it] in the freezer in small containers and you can later add [it] to all sorts of dishes—tuna noodle casserole, beef stew, any meat sauté to make a quick mushroom/wine pan sauce. You can get a real bang [for the buck] out of [it].”